[QUOTE=Antharias2k]I still love watching Jaheria run into a beholders lair and just standing there and doing nothing while they kill themselves. It lasts about all of 15 seconds. I use the Shield of Balduran.[/QUOTE]
I like doing that.
And before ToB, there was the Cloak of Mirroring. It was updated in a apatch removing it's ability to reflect ANY harmful spell. Unfortunately, the Shield of Balduran doesn't cover everything a Beholder does though. I remember being Imprisoned by a Elder Orb. Smugly walking into a room full of Beholders and losing the character.
As for Searing Light, that's in Pool of Radiance, there's no equivalent that I know of in BG. Apart from Sunray but that's 4 spell levels higher.
[QUOTE=Berethor]Howcome I never heard of that spell? can you explain what it does?[/QUOTE]
Oops. Sorry *hides*. My bad. I hit the "post" button before I could insert that the spell is from The Darkest Day mod. But Sunray does the same, if you can cast it fast enough.
Take care!
luv & hugs
The Drow
There's a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head.
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
I killed Firkraag with a harm spell and a hit from Minsc. The whole thing took a few seconds. It was the first time I'd ever played through, and I thought- "Wow, the dragons in this game are really pushovers."
Needless to say, that reasoning didn't hold up through later dragon encounters!
My story would be the time Jan used one blaster skull to paralyze that monster whose heart we needed, visited through the Planar Sphere. After that, it was quick work destroying the thing, but previous encounters in other games with it were nowhere near as fortunate.
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
The first time I fought Firkraag, I was ready for a big, scary battle, but Minsc killed him on the first hit with the Silver Sword before anyone else had a chance to do anything. I thought it was funny and amazing, but it was still sort of a let-down, so I reloaded. The ensuing battle was just as chaotic and scary as I had expected.
When I killed the dragons with magic missile.... (not only but that was what killed em)
Just had been soloing with a Mage/Cleric and had got a relativly high level by that time.
Entered the first dragonlair... cast lower resistance and pierce magic... then went loose with the "tough" spells first trying to fry him with fireballs then some Acid arrow and finally magic missile... the poor dragon didnt have a chance...
It wasn't impressive but it was funny...When entering Mae'Var's guild to clean house, Gorch's circle didn't turn red but instead yellow and he said "The customer is always right" and promptly exited the building. I almost choked from laughing. In previous attacks he just turned red and promptly died.
The first time I tried the Cult of the Unseeing Eye quest and needed to kill that spirit of hate in the spidery-temple (where the fallen god is) I must have reloaded 5 or so times before I finally killed him. I didn't realize you were supposed to use a healing spell on him, and so spent the better part of an hour frustrated as hell, unable to touch him!
Eventually Minsc got hurt pretty bad and I had Jaheira cast a healing spell on him: he was, however, standing right next to the demon and I misclicked (much to my original dismay) and the near-instantaneous Cure Light Wounds spell hit and (as we all know) killed him .
By far the most interesting, and rewarding, conclusion to any RPG fight I've experienced .
"Be thankful you're healthy." "Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."
"Be glad you're even alive." "Be furious you're going to die."
"Things could be much worse." "They could be one hell of a lot better."
I felt that, prior to fighting Kalah, I was in for one tough struggle (the guys Illusionary power after all was nuts :/). However I was relieved/dissappointed to find him only casting magic missile. :/
"It is not a Commonwealth division, it is an Australian Division. Why, give me two Australian Divisions and I will conquer the world for you!" - The Desert Fox
Fighting bodhi in her lair the first time.(in my first run through the game) open with daystar's sunray - BOOOM - bodhi runs away not a single hit on my party
When I first played BGII - the Shadow Dragon, pet of the Shade Lord, was awesome and kicked my character's butt.
Yesterday, I positioned Nalia just outside the visible zone and fired off her cloud-kills to overlap with the Dragon. I added a few CKs from the wand that the city gate Lich left behind (I decided to go back and waste that mother - ea-sy, ea-sy) - and the pet was put to sleep. cloud kill seems to have so much power that the dragon just can't keep up, despite its MR.
only took a few rounds and the black scales/crom feyr scroll were mine - didn't even get a scratch.
[mind you, when the dark altar plus baddies go down (thank you, Daystar) I'm getting a CTD every time.]
"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"
I thought the Shade Lord was a cream puff. I had him dead in one round. Some of the villains needed to be tougher....like Kalah, Mae'Var, that Drow chick in the tombs... and Anarg.
Rayic Gethras is usually a little tough for me as I take him pretty early in the game. I'm soloing a fighter/mage and summoned a nishruu and well...just extraordinarily easy. Didn't get a hit.
Two come to mind for me (both of which have already been mentioned): Firkragg - one hit with the silver sword and done (1st time through as well)
Bohdi - surrounded by her summons, cast Sunray from Daystar and boom, well I did have to hit Bodhi once to kill her after that, but I did do 1,056 points of damage to one of her lackeys.
